The joint director of Income- Tax lost his laptop, cash and other important documents to a gang of thieves who distracted his driver and made off with the booty. The incident occurred near municipal market on Friday evening. Joint Director (Income-Tax) Vimal Meena filed a complaint with Navrangpura police . According to the complaint, Meena left his office at 6.55 pm on Friday to conduct some purchases.

The driver, Hasmukh Parmar, drove the car to an electronics shop on C G Road. While Meena went into the store, the driver stayed back. After visiting a couple of shops, Meena went to a cellphone showroom near Jade Blue Circle. "When Meena went to the showroom, the driver noticed that his laptop bag was nowhere to be seen. He called Meena to inform about it and the duo realised that the bag had been stolen," the complaint stated. When Parmar could not find the laptop bag, he recollected that he had been distracted by three men aged between 35 and 40 years while he was standing near the electronic shop.

Parmar told police, "One of them told me to back the car as it was in the way of other vehicles. After I reversed the car, another man told me that my wallet was lying on the car's backseat. I checked but did not find the wallet. When I returned to the front of the car, a third man - an auto driver -- came up to me and said that there was a wallet lying behind the rear tyre of the car. I did not find anything and when I returned to the front, the autowallah had vanished." The laptop bag contained a laptop, charger and mouse totalling Rs 1.3 lakh in value.

The bag also contained a cheque book, Rs 20,000 in cash, a cellphone, a pen drive, passport-size photos of Meena and his family members, keys to Meena's office, a power bank; some documents and Meena's AIU (Air Intelligence Unit) of Sardar Vallabhbhai Airport ID card. Meena told Mirror, "I have filed a complaint with Navrangpura police station and police officials have begun the investigation." Inspector R V Desai said, "We are examining footage from cameras around the crime spot for clues to the rickshaw's numberplate and the identity of the suspects."

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